Please consider this an announcement that formal bidding has begun today for Wikimania 2008 host city. Bids can be placed on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids.

Also, the candidate city selection jury has been announced, the names can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Jury

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Thank you.

Cary Bass

Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass@wikimedia.org